Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ralph Daigh, editorial director of Fewcett publications: "We have satisfied a great hunger for reading...adding materially to education." (He also asserted the public likes to read about sex, anyway, and that works published by his concern were no more indecent than various episodes in Plato and Shakespeare...
...heart breaks when sometimes a little schoolboy approaches and asks: 'Is it true, Father, that before the war children in Poland died of hunger?' or 'Do children in England have to work in the mines?' The main weight of the fight against the lies and moral distortion has moved from the school to the home. This duty now falls on the overworked mothers...
...tired old tiger was dying of hunger. A..C. Merrill...
This display of armed might was Britain's answer to the Mau Mau (rhymes with bow-wow), the African secret society that threatens to wipe out Kenya's 30,000 whites (TIME, Oct. 27). Part land hunger, part savage revolution against the domineering white man and the bewildering 20th century, the Mau Mau's blind fury could, if left unchecked, turn the Crown Colony of Kenya into another Malaya. Once pooh-poohed as mere "press exaggeration," the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and "loyal" blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga-a long, machete...
...Tiger winning streak to 31 straight (since mid-season 1949). But in the way stood a high hurdle: ponderous, powerful Penn. With All-American Dick Kazmaier and ten of last year's other regulars gone, Princeton's young team would have to outsmart and outspeed Coach George Hunger's huskies to win. In Princeton's Palmer Stadium last week, Charlie's youngsters tried. With less than five minutes left in the second quarter, Penn had bucked and passed its way into a 13-0 lead over the slow-starting Tigers. Then Princeton came to life...